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The Intersection of Walkability, Bikeability & Equity Presented by Genoveva Islas, MPH Founder & Director, Cultiva La Salud
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The Intersection of Walkability, Bikeability &
EquityPresented by Genoveva Islas, MPH
Founder & Director, Cultiva La Salud
Cultiva La SaludOur mission is to engage, inform and inspire residents in the San Joaquin Valley who are low-income and live in disadvantaged places to become actively involved in promoting health through advocacy for policy, systems and environmental improvements that encourage healthy eating and active living.
Transportation Inequity
Transportation Inequity
What is Transportation Equity?
• Transportation equity means providing all individuals with an opportunity to safely get to work, school, home, healthcare, etc...
• Transportation equity is the just and fair inclusion in transportation planning.
• Transportation equity considers the needs of underserved communities.
• Transportation equity is about shared prosperity.
Challenges in Advancing Equity• Limited Infrastructure• Limited Power
– Education– Experience– Relationships
• Opportunities to Participate– Language Access– Meeting Times
• Data - Evidence• Regressive Projects• Racism & Anti-immigrant
Sentiment
Engaging Decision Makers
Live Stories
English Spanish
Equity Tool
Engaging Community• Community based
participatory research– Photovoice– Walkability assessments– Biking assessments
• Community Reports– Orange Cove– Fresno
• Community Pedestrian Bicycle Safety Training (CPBST)
• Active Transportation Planning• Participatory Budgeting
Leadership Development
Powerful People: Building Leadership for Healthy Communities• Residents self-
identifying projects• Supporting capacity
building.• Cycle of advocacy
Organizational Capacity Building
• Staff Training• League Certified
Instructors• Appointment to BPAC• Stakeholder Review
Fresno ATP• Fresno COG
Biking and Walking Safety
Opposition & Responses
“When you say equity do you mean that I should do everything for this side of town that I do for that side of town?”
“I’m sick and tired of the whole victim-villain narrative that you are using?”
“Why are you complaining? What you have here is better than what you had in Mexico.”
Summary
Transportation equity: • provides people with multiple transportation
options; • promotes equal employment opportunities; • requires equal decision-making power; • promotes healthy and sustainable
communities; and • requires meaningful civil rights protections.
